Change your design’s graphics using the property editor
Shapes that you draw in Giraffe can be styled by a number of properties. If you want to change how a shape appears on the map, read on to find out how. You can also change the default styles for each usage - which is covered in Usages
<aside> 🎓 What is a property? From dictionary.com: an essential or distinctive attribute or quality of a thing From Wikipedia: a property is a characteristic of an object; a red object is said to have the property of redness.
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Properties in Giraffe allow you to tell your project story. Use properties to control everything from giving all the residential buildings the same buildCost to making all annotations blue. Giraffe comes pre-loading with many properties (see the full List of Included Feature Properties) or you can create your own.
Each shape in Giraffe are GeoJSON features with a geometry and various Properties . Giraffe allows any property to be added to these shapes by users or apps.
Certain properties are used by Giraffe to render the shape on the map, and to perform the calculations required for Urban Calculations , so it is important that users are aware of these.
<aside> 🚨 Other properties may be required by various apps in order for them to run properly, but this page only describes the properties relevant to Giraffe.
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If a geometry feature has a property that exists in the feature’s Usages, the section will inherit properties from the Usage it references.
If the property is set directly in the feature, the feature-level property has priority. That is, feature properties override the Usage’s properties at the instance level.
Controls multiple features.
Edit in the Usages Editor
Use to control many objects
Controls a single selected feature
Edit in ‣
Use to override Usages in a one-off fashion
Add properties to map features by clicking the shape and then clicking ‘Add new property” in the left-hand tool palette.
<aside> 💡 View a List of Included Feature Properties
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